The Economics of Biofuel Policies Impacts on Price Volatility in Gra
The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries. While a certain degree of research has been conducted on biofuel effica
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The Economics of Biofuel Policies
10.1057/9781137414854 - The Economics of Biofuel Policies, Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and David R. Just
Series Editor: Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University, USA.
Agricultural and food policy lies at the heart of many pressing societal issues today, and economic analysis occupies a privileged place in contemporary policy debates. The global food price crises of 2007–2008 and 2010–2011 underscored the mounting challenge of meeting rapidly increasing food demand in the face of increasingly scarce land and water resources. The twin scourges of poverty and hunger quickly resurfaced as high-level policy concerns, partly because of food price riots and mounting insurgencies fomented by contestation over rural resources. Meanwhile, agriculture’s heavy footprint on natural resources motivates heated environmental debates about climate change, water and land use, biodiversity conservation, and chemical pollution. Agricultural technological change, especially associated with the introduction of genetically modified organisms, also introduces unprecedented questions surrounding intellectual property rights and consumer preferences regarding credence (i.e., unobservable by consumers) characteristics. Similar new agricultural commodity consumer behavior issues have emerged around issues such as local foods, organic agriculture, and fair trade, even motivating broader social movements. Public health issues related to obesity, food safety, and zoonotic diseases such as avian or swine flu also have roots deep in agricultural and food policy. And, agriculture has become inextricably linked to energy policy through biofuels production. Meanwhile, the agricultural and food economy is changing rapidly throughout the world, marked by continued consolidation at both farm production and retail distribution levels, elongating value chains, expanding international trade, and growing reliance on immigrant labor and information and communications technologies. In summary, a vast range of topics of widespread popular and scholarly interest revolve around agricultural and food policy and the economics of those issues. This series features leading global experts writing accessible summaries of the best current economics and related research on topics of widespread interest to both scholarly and lay audiences. The Economics of Biofuel Policies: Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets by Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, and David R. Just
10.1057/9781137414854 - The Economics of Biofuel Policies, Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and David R. Just
Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to New York University - Waldmann Dental Library - PalgraveConnect - 2015-05-17
Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets
Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, and David R. Just
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